Posted on 09/04/2004 7:20:50 PM PDT by saquin
AFTER more than 24 hours in the sweltering heat of the school gymnasium in Beslan, one of the boys trapped inside could not take it any longer, writes Peter Conradi.
Summoning up his courage, he approached a hostage taker with a bayonet fixed to his assault rifle and asked him for a drink. It was probably the worst error that he could have made.
Instead of giving him water, he drove his bayonet through the boys body, said Stanislav Tsarakhov, 10, another captive standing nearby. I dont know if he died.
Details of the incident emerged as children who escaped the siege described how their captors had deliberately deprived them of food and water, repeatedly firing guns into the ceiling to try to silence them. The hostage takers would hold their machineguns to your temple and said that if there was a lot of noise, they would shoot everyone, said a girl, who gave her name only as Zalina.
Diana Gadzhinova, 14, who also survived the siege, said that one of the greatest hardships had been the lack of food and drink.
When we were let out to go to the lavatory, some children would run into a room where there were plants in pots and they would eat them, she said.
Others would hide the plants in their underwear and share them with their friends. But the hunger was not as bad as the thirst. Some children couldnt take it and would urinate into their hand and drink.
At another point, Gadzhinova said, they were all ordered to lie down. There were so many people packed into the gym that they had to lie on top of each other. The gunmen warned that if there was an arm or a leg in their way, they would shoot at it without warning, she said.
For Arsen Khasigov, 11, trapped with his mother, the worst thing was the sleep deprivation. They kept us awake all the time, he said. They would pour our urine on our heads.
Also horrific was the role played by two black widows Chechen women who turned to terrorism to avenge husbands and brothers killed during the Kremlins military clampdown on the breakaway republic.
According to accounts from some captives, the women blew themselves up in the first hours of the siege, killing several men near them. Last night no trace of their bodies had been found.
Probably took it as questioning his patriotism.
The threat of terrorism is overblown. Its not a war. I want a more sensitive approach.
What's the difference between Muslim Terrorists and the SS guards at Auschwitz?
Apparently none.
I bet John Kerry agrees (...and disagrees)
I too have visited Israel and Jordan. The Palestine people were warm and very friendly. I have a problem judging the problems now with these people that I met but something has to happen to this terrorism all over the world and will likely will be brutal. Even in the USA.
Bush is on the right track and Kerry would destroy us when he appeases these criminals.
> The leaders of the mosques in the United States frequently damn their members for becoming westernized.
Chuckle. Well, you come to America, you find out it's not all that eeeee-vul.
We were at the weekly car cruise last night, where there are mobs of folks, walking around, admiring all the classic cars. This is in southwestern Virginia, pretty far from that nest of Yuppies up near D.C.
There was a couple, obviously from the Mid East, strolling around hand in hand, admiring the American muscle cars. They could well have been Iraqi, but I'm not sure.
Heh, heh, America is the Borg and we will assimilate you.
Those B*****d's!!!!
May the Spirit of Vlad Tepes rise from the grave to avenge the blood of these innocents.
I hope Putin has more testicular fortitude than American leaders and purges Chechnya and Chechnyans from existence - every last friggin one of them.
So, is that a yes or no? lol
I'm not convinced the American people understand what's going on and the MSM is hiding the worst from them, deflecting and covering for Muhammadan Terrorists "Guerillas, Militants, Insurgents".
Bingo. Starting with Mecca. No compuction, no remorse, no apologies. At some point, they will run out of population centers, or make nice.
Personally, I prefer the former. KTAN.
My sentiments exactly. This proves that it's not "for the children" at all.
Like you I think of my grandchildren in that situation. I saw a picture of a dead child last night that looked about the age of my Andrew. There is no death too horrific for these sewage floaters.
But, DU has "proof" that Bush is Hitler. Therefore he is worse than these animals.
Isn't General Urko, (Kofi Annan) a muslim too? He is just gleefully laughing under his breath. The UN and crew should be moved to Europe. In doing this the swine can be with swine.
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I dislike Putin and his fellow Russians, however he needs to send a mushroom cloud to those terrorists.
Beware, Armageddon awaits to arrive on stage with the next "pain feeling" president!
While the terrorists were a planning, the dope from hope was blowing on his saxaphone or letting monica blow his bent sax. Eight years of do nothing cost many American lives. The brain-dead fools would still vote for that POS and consider him boy wonderful. It takes a dumb-Motherf---ker to raise a democrat and vote for one.
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